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January 27, 2015—CHICAGO—To address the growing volume of data and reduce the corresponding search for the "needle in a haystack" in large data sets, researchers at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago have secured three patents (US 8,209,358 B2, US 8,626,792, US 7,720,869 B2...

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, has named IIT Computer Science Professor Xiangyang Li a Distinguished Scientist. Li is one of 49 ACM members selected in 2014 as a Distinguished Educator, Scientist, or...

Russell Betts, dean of the College of Science, announced the appointment of Eunice Santos, Ph.D., as chair and professor of the Department of Computer Science. She will formally take up the appointment January 1, 2015.
An award-winning researcher and teacher, Santos was professor of computer...

IIT College of Science has developed a new pathway to a teaching license in Illinois: the STEM Education minor. Students who major in mathematics, science, or engineering can take at a maximum of seven courses/24 credit hours of STEM education classes to earn the minor.
Together, the B.S. and minor...

A team from Illinois Institute of Technology recently took fourth place in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), Mid-Central U.S. Region. The competition was held on November 1 at the University of Chicago and was sponsored by IBM and ACM...

As supercomputers continue to grow in scale and complexity, reliability becomes a paramount concern because the mean-time-between-failures, now calculated in hours, is expected to drop to minutes on future machines. Fault detection, a process of identifying when and where a fault has occurred,...